Ye Olde Pub (The English Pub)

[Aak1]

Same here. Going to get my certificate/diploma tonight.

I already got my grades though, exept the tidiness and behaviour grade. ah, and the exams. I know I got 6 on the oral one though

 

Got 4,7 as the average grade.

[.Marcus]

Same here. Going to get my certificate/diploma tonight.

I already got my grades though, exept the tidiness and behaviour grade. ah, and the exams. I know I got 6 on the oral one though 

 

Got 4,7 as the average grade.

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That's GPA - Grade Point Average

 

And what's up with having the last day of school today? I'm already a week into my vacation!

[Lidskjalv]

So what's your plans for the summer then?

 

Me:

 

1. Rudskogen - Gatebil (broken pistons and burned rubber)

2. Lost Weekend - Kollevåg, Askøy. (CnH2n+1OH and musikk festival)

[Fruktkake]

Bergen, Oslo and London.

[Fruktkake]

I am done with 10 years of school now.

[Lidskjalv]

Bergen, Oslo and London.

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Oh..I almost forgot. A trip to Riga/Latvia in september. Paid by the company.

[Thewiz]

I am done with 10 years of school now.

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I am done with 11 years now. And now i face 2 months of summer vacation.

[Korka]

I had 3,8 as average grade last year and 4 now...

 

Some grades like german and (kunst og håndtverk!?) are pulling down my grades very much!

[cyclo]

kunst & håndverk = arts and crafts

[Nebuchadnezzar]

I am going to England this summer.

 

Arts and Crafts + German + gym + singing/school play is taking my grades down ( 4 in those. I hope i get a 5 in the rest)

 

I got a 6 at my exam in English so i hope i still remember the language when i get to England. :!:

[Allighiero]

From a topic in the music forum someone claimed "We don't need no education" to be an incorrect phrase. I'm pretty sure it is correct English, though a bit unformal, but I got a little unsure about that it is a double denial. They claimed that phrase actually means "We need education" and that "don't need" and "no" cancel eachother if you're really picky. Can someone clarify this? My thoughts are that "no" can be translated to "noen" in Norwegian; "Vi trenger ikke noen utdanning", and that the two denials aren't connected.

[.Marcus]

"We don't need no" = "Vi trenger ikke noen"

 

If you ask me, the "no" in there is just to enhance what they're trying to say - that they don't need it.

[cyclo]

"We don't need no" is a double negative, it's slang or dialect. I don't know if it's "legal" or not. Certain American dialects often use double negatives in this form.

 

Litteraly a double negative would be a positive, but it's normaly used as a negative.

 

An example could be "I aint no hillbilly" meaning I'm not a hillbilly.

 

Somtimes a double negative can be used as a positive and sometimes a double negative can be used as a positive. I've allready illustrated the first, so I'll give you an example of the latter as well. "A day doesn't pass when I don't think about the accident" is a good example. The double negative turns positive. The sentence means that I think about the accident every day.

 

Edit: Just to make sure that I was right I checked, and according to wikipedia I'm correct: Double Negatives

 

You can I've have triple and quadruple negatives:

 

"Never took no shit from no one, we weren't fools"

Endret 21. juni 2007 av cyclo

[Fruktkake]

Right, I got a 5 on my written examination and 6 on my oral examination (both in English). As for the yearly grades it was 5 on the written part and 5 on the oral part. I still haven't gotten the actual test back though, just the results from the certificate (vitnemål).

[Vitharr]

Aahh Double negatives...I can't stand it when I hear "gangsta's" and hillbillies/southerners talk.

"Don't got no" and "ain't" -pukes-

[Mr. Bojangles]

Just imagine how odd double negatives would sound in Norwegian. :!:

 

Spanish use double negatives, eh?

[Vitharr]

I can't think of any spanish double negatives at the moment actually..guess it's not common ...only in stupid english, my friends ^^

[cyclo]

Just imagine how odd double negatives would sound in Norwegian.  :!:

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We have them in Norwegian too. An example: "Jeg orker ikke gjøre noe nei", "Han nådde ikke ferja nei", etc.

 

I can't think of any spanish double negatives at the moment actually..guess it's not common ...only in stupid english, my friends ^^

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I'm afraid your wrong there...

 

Double negatives are standard in Romance languages. Complex negation is generally expressed by placing a negation adverb (word for "not": ne in French, no in Spanish and Catalan, non in Italian, não in Portuguese, nu in Romanian) before the verb and zero or more negative adverbs or pronouns elsewhere to indicate what kind of negation is being made.

Endret 22. juni 2007 av cyclo

[Vitharr]

Damnit!

[Lidskjalv]

Wikipedia has some guides helping contributers clean up their language. Useful for them, and certainly useful for us. Check out these pages:

 

Avoid peacock terms: Instead of telling the reader that a subject is important, use facts to show the subject's importance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_peacock_terms

 

Avoid weasel words: Avoid phrases such as "some people say" without sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words

Endret 24. juni 2007 av pwd3679